https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/wordpress shows not updated since 2015
The Fork network shows many many variations of this repo.
Does no one care any more?
Posted also to https://github.com/brint/wordpress-cookbook/issues/74
Open source projects come and go. It is the way of the world. You are welcome (or even encouraged) to fork it yourself and try to make something better or at least more responsive to user requests.